Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Long

Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.

Elizabeth I

Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.

Arthur Keith

This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the plot.

Arthur Keith

Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.

Managing dissent is about recognizing the value of disagreement, discord and difference.

Lysander Spooner

Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as vices, by their effects, until after they have been practised for many years; perhaps for a lifetime.

We're not going to go up there and discuss what we're going to do on the 11th or the 18th or the 25th.

Leonard Nimoy

This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussion about the subject matter and I've had a good time talking about it. And in some of the cases, I'm not just signing books; I'm showing slides and talking about the work.

Protagoras

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.

Nick Park

I went back over the sketch books I'd filled at Sheffield for ideas and discovered Wallace and Gromit, except Gromit was a cat then. I made them into Plasticene shapes and started 'A Grand Day Out.' It took me longer than I expected.

Svante Paabo

I really wanted to discover mummies, like Indiana Jones.

Trent Reznor

I think the reason I was 23 before I ever wrote a song was that I was afraid of testing myself. What would I do if I discovered I didn't have anything to say?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.

Alfred North Whitehead

The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

Alexander Fleming

In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and deep thought, that valuable antibacterial substances were made by moulds and that I set out to investigate the problem. That would have been untrue and I preferred to tell the truth that penicillin started as a chance observation. My only merit is that I did not neglect the observation and that I pursued the subject as a bacteriologist. My publication in 1929 was the starting-point of the work of others who developed penicillin especially in the chemical field.

Alexander Fleming

(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.

Aldo Leopold

The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.

Albert Einstein

Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance). In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all.

Albert Einstein

The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.

Alexander Graham Bell

Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.

Alexander Graham Bell

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

Perry Farrell

We want the fans to discover and explore.

We want to be sure that we execute that discretion wisely. We want to look to the future before we make any changes.

We've never had a sit-down together to discuss this.

Adolph Gottlieb

Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

Cam Newton

I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are.

P. J. O'Rourke

Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.

By law, super PACs are required to disclose their donors. There are groups that have never had to disclose their donors, non-profits such as the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the NAACP, and the NRA. If you want more disclosure, super PACs are a step forward.

Brian Greene

Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.

I discovered early in my career as an entrepreneur that I'm not good at many things, and I said 'I need help.'

Bum Phillips

The only discipline that last is self discipline.

We had some lengthy discussion about it with the commissioner .... He had sought further explanation from the umpires in the hearing.

We're doing that party, clubby, disco thing -- so much so, that we're thinking of doing some really small gigs. That's one of my goals for this year, to do some really small gigs. They're a lot more intimate and the people there will be right into it.